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Though its name sounds like a trendy workout craze, Medicare’s new “step therapy” policy has nothing to do with getting people in their 60s to move their feet. Sometimes called “fail first,” step therapy is the term used when a health insurance company forces doctors to prescribe the cheapest medication...

Special event

The line-up of authors has been announced for the second annual San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books, scheduled for Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Liberty Station in Point Loma. Included will be 30 panels on a variety of topics — contemporary fiction, crime and mysteries, military history,...

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Gig companies such as Uber, DoorDash and Instacart portray themselves as brave and brilliant innovators, underdog entrepreneurs whose explosive growth simply reflects that they’ve built a better mousetrap. But the companies have been sued again and again, in the United States and around the globe,...

News

The family of a 13-year-old California student who drowned on school property with no help from lifeguards will receive an $11 million settlement. Alex Pierce was under water at the bottom of a high school pool for two minutes "with no intervention" from anyone on June 3, 2016, according to a wrongful...

Business

The fax machine is widely considered to be a dinosaur of interoffice communications, but it lives on as part of all-in-one printers and may present a vulnerable point where hackers can infiltrate an organization's network, according to a new report from Israeli software company Check Point. The...

Sports

Demetrius Sumler found himself working at a RadioShack store in Pacific Beach one day a few years ago when it struck him that selling phones and other electronics wasn’t the career path he envisioned for himself. Sumler’s next job working as an admissions counselor for an online university didn’t...

Entertainment

For more than 400 years, theater people have been trying to get a bead on the volatile bond between Beatrice and Benedick, the epic frenemies from Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.” But for Kathleen Marshall, who’s staging a new production of the thorny comedy for the Old Globe’s Shakespeare...

Lifestyle

It all started with a deck. Jim and Insu Nuzzi wanted more outdoor entertainment space for their Del Mar home, but they weren’t sure how to go about it. Their house, on a deeply sloped lot, didn’t have much room to expand. The modern, three-story house, with strong geometric angles and curves,...